Cocaine Inc. (Pt 1) - A shooting at Christmas
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Between now and January 6th we will be playing the 2024 award-winning series, Cocaine Inc., from The Times, The Sunday Times and News Corp Australia.
A brutal attack on an innocent young woman sends the reporters on a global investigation.
David Collins visits Merseyside in northern England, where 26-year-old Elle Edwards was shot while celebrating Christmas Eve.
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| 0:31.2 | Hi, it's Manvine here. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. We're going to be taking a short |
| 0:40.1 | break here at the story over the rest of the festive period, mainly so that I can get over my food coma, |
| 0:46.3 | but don't worry, we'll still be bringing you a podcast every day. We're going to be revisiting |
| 0:52.7 | an award-winning series from earlier this year. |
| 0:56.4 | Cocaine Inc is a collaboration between the Times, the Sunday Times and News Corp Australia, |
| 1:03.0 | and it was made by members of the story production team. It begins with a murder, one Christmas |
| 1:09.3 | Eve, which kickstarts our reporter's global investigation into the cocaine trade. |
| 1:16.5 | The main host of the series is my brilliant colleague at the Times, our chief reporter, Fiona Hamilton. |
| 1:23.3 | I hope you have a brilliant new year. |
| 1:26.6 | Luke and I will be back with the story as normal on January 6th, |
| 1:30.3 | but until then, I leave you in the capable hands and excellent company of Fiona. And just a quick warning. The series contains strong language from the start and violent themes. |
| 1:42.3 | This is not a video game. |
| 1:45.0 | This is real life. |
| 1:46.0 | You go to a fucking pub on Christmas Eve with a machine gun. |
| 1:49.0 | If it was someone going here with a baseball bat |
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